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* Schindler's company produces Enamelworks, which is cookware coated in enamel for heat resistance. Where was this practice first discovered? In Germany, in 1760. What better cover for an operation to keep Jews safe from the atrocities of a totalitarian government hellbent on emphasizing the brilliance of their ingenuity and culture than a business built around an invention of that culture?
* During the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, a German soldier is seen and heard playing the piano, and two other soldiers look in, one wondering "Who is this, Bach?" with the other saying "Nein, nein, it's Mozart." It actually is Bach, and the throwaway lines do not appear in the script, so this is Spielberg's attempt to show how the German culture has given the world such wonders as Bach and Mozart, but then devolved into the culture of the Nazis, and by then could not even recognize their culture's own beauty.
* In combination with FridgeHorror: why is Goeth ''so'' against letting Helen go to Brünnlitz, despite having developed a twisted affection for her and despite already allowing Schindler to put more than a thousand other Jewish prisoners on the list? That's another case of EvilCannotComprehendGood. Most probably, he thinks Schindler wants Helen for himself, so Goeth tries to invoke IfICantHaveYou instead. Once again, the thought that Schindler simply feels compassion for Helen and wishes to save her life never enters Goeth's mind.
* Schindler and Stern shaking hands at the end of the film is especially poignant when one realizes that, until 12:00 on that night, throughout the course of their friendship, it had been forbidden for a German to shake hands with a Jew.
* Goeth allows the young man who outsmarts him during the “chicken interrogation” to not only live, but go to work at Schindler’s factory. Being as Goeth would kill for A LOT less than that he clearly must admire the young man’s quick thinking.
* The guards at the munitions factory seem a little bewildered and confused over how Schindler treats the Jews like humans. However they don’t protest in any way since they were fully aware that at this point any other post would’ve had them futily fighting on the front lines and their odds of survival were virtually none. So they were quite content to do whatever Schindler wanted no matter how bizarre it might seem from their perspective.

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* Chances are that there were many other people who, like Schindler, tried to save a lot of innocent Jews. Unfortunately, many of those heroes were caught early on, and their plans failed, and no one ever made a movie about them.
* He goes unnamed, but the ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' at Auschwitz who inspects the Jewish women from Schindler's factory is '''''UsefulNotes/JosefMengele'''''.